{"id":496213,"date":"2026-02-22T06:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T06:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/496213\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T06:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T06:11:08","slug":"police-sergeant-allegedly-caught-drink-driving-twice-in-one-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/496213\/","title":{"rendered":"Police sergeant allegedly caught drink driving twice in one day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An off-duty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/police\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"police \">police<\/a> officer has been charged after allegedly being caught drink driving twice within hours.<\/p>\n<p>The 53-year-old man, a sergeant at a Northern Region Command in New South Wales, allegedly gave a positive breath test at 11.30am on the Pacific Highway at Coffs Harbour.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested and taken to Woolgoolga Police Station where he had further breath analysis which returned a reading of 0.131.<\/p>\n<p>He was given a Future Court Attendance Notice, charged with drive with mid-range PCA, and his driving licence was suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Later, at 9.15pm police were called to reports members of the public had detained a driver on Red Rock Road, Red Rock, near Coffs Harbour after he was seen driving dangerously.<\/p>\n<p>The driver &#8211; allegedly the same one &#8211; allegedly tested positive.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested and taken to Coffs Harbour Police Station where he returned a breath analysis reading of 0.191.<\/p>\n<p>He was charged with high-range PCA and drive motor vehicle whilst licence suspended.<\/p>\n<p>He was granted conditional bail and will appear at Coffs Harbour Local Court on Tuesday April 7 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The officer&#8217;s employment status is under review, NSW Police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An off-duty police officer has been charged after allegedly being caught drink driving twice within hours. The 53-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-496213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}